World's Biggest Coffee Morning Explained

World's Biggest Coffee Morning
Type:	Charity
Founded Date:	1999

The World's Biggest Coffee Morning is an annual fundraising event run by Macmillan Cancer Support where people across the UK host and attend Coffee Mornings in aid of Macmillan. Since 1990 it has raised over £310 million for Macmillan.^[1]

History

The first Coffee Morning was held in 1990, when a local fundraising committee held a coffee morning where the cost of the coffee was donated to Macmillan. The first nationwide Coffee Morning took place in 1991 with 2,600 supporters taking part.^[2] The World's Biggest Coffee Morning is one of the largest and longest-standing fundraising events of its kind in the United Kingdom.^[3]

Other fundraising events have included Coffee Mornings 100 feet underground at Poldark Mine, on a jet fighter and in Antarctica.

Corporate supporters

The official partner of coffee morning is M&S. Since 2010, M&S has raised £10 million by creating limited edition homeware products and selling a range of baked goods with a donation going towards Macmillan Cancer Support.^[4]

Notable participants

• Alesha Dixon, English singer-songwriter, dancer, model, and television personality
• Larry Lamb, English actor
• Mrs Stephen Fry, blogger, author and award-winning Tweeter (and fictional ‘poor, downtrodden wife & mother of his [Stephen Fry’s] five, six or possibly seven kids.")^[5]
• Martin Clunes,^[6] English actor and comedian.
• Ben Fogle,^[7] English television presenter, adventurer and writer.
• Katherine Jenkins, Welsh classical singer - attended Marks and Spencer coffee morning with executive chairman Stuart Rose.^[8]
• Sheree Murphy,^[9] English actress and television presenter.

See also

• Cancer in the United Kingdom

External links

• World's Biggest Coffee Morning

Notes and References

1. Web site: What is MacMillan's Coffee Morning? . . macmillan.org.uk . 2024-03-27.
2. Web site: Macmillan Coffee Morning raises record breaking £25m . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230905012342/https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/macmillan-coffee-morning-raises-record-breaking--25m.html . 2023-09-05 . 2023-09-05 . www.civilsociety.co.uk.
3. Web site: The World's Biggest Coffee Morning for Macmillan Cancer Support.
4. Web site: Our official partner World's Biggest Coffee Morning Macmillan Cancer Support . coffee.macmillan.org.uk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20170719142831/http://coffee.macmillan.org.uk/about/our-official-partner . 2017-07-19.
5. Web site: The stars come out for coffee morning . coffee.macmillan.org.uk . 3 February 2022 . https://archive.today/20120707135600/http://coffee.macmillan.org.uk/News/NewsfromaroundtheUK/2011/Thestarscomeoutforcoffeemorning.aspx . 7 July 2012 . dead.
6. Web site: Wilkes . Neil . Martin Clunes . Digitalspy.co.uk . 2006-09-10 . 2016-10-01.
7. Web site: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110927082153/http://rochdale.gov.uk/news_and_events/latest_news/september_2010/pupils_go_wild_for_ben_fogle_a.aspx . Pupils go wild for Ben Fogle at their charity coffee morning. 2011-09-27. 2023-09-23.
8. Web site: Marks & Spencer | Investors | Press releases | Katherine Jenkins and Sir Stuart Rose brew up a storm for Macmillan Cancer Support . corporate.marksandspencer.com . 17 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120322220951/http://corporate.marksandspencer.com/investors/press_releases/macmillan_cancer_support . 22 March 2012 . dead.
9. Web site: Miles . Tina . Liverpool boutique Cricket hosts celebrity coffee morning for Macmillan Cancer Support . Liverpool Echo . 24 September 2010. 2016-10-01.